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PM urges estranged Balochs to join national mainstream

September 14, 2017

DERA BUGTI, Sep 14 (INP) Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has appealed the estranged Baloch brothers to leave the path of confrontation and join the national mainstream for the development of Balochistan. The Prime Minister was speaking after inauguration of the Kachhi Canal project in Dera Bugti on Thursday. The first phase of the project completed at a cost of Rs 80 billion, will irrigate 72,000 acres of barren yet cultivable land in the far-flung and backward areas of Dera Bugti. He said the project will be a game changer for the people of Dera Bugti. “Today, Nawaz Sharif should have been here,” he said, adding that the former premier had been involved in every phase of the project........................ INP/AH